Bush says best moment as President was "catching a fish in my lake"

[Dudley_DUright]

He really is the worst president ever. :dunce:

"You know, I've experienced many great moments and it's hard to name the best," Bush told weekly Bild am Sonntag when asked about his high point since becoming president in January 2001.

"I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound (3.402 kilos) perch in my lake," he told the newspaper in an interview published on Sunday.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/05/bushs-best-moment-as-prez-catching.html

[Cooley Hurd]

1. In all honesty, there's not a lot of "best moments" to choose from...

x(

[Midlodemocrat]

84. I can't even think of a 'not terrible' moment.

[Lisa]

123. yeah -- we've always had to set the bar low for this guy ...

And if you define "best" as "least harmful to the rest of the world" -- I have to say, I agree with him on this one.

[Midlodemocrat]

124. LOL. How true. How true.

[Julius Civitatus]

150. He's probably referring to "LAKE GEORGE"

That's what people renamed New Orleans after Katrina: "LAKE GEORGE."


:evilgrin:

[peekaloo]

2. Ranks right up there with the Pope's funeral I guess.

he's demented.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Ya gotta wonder who baited the hook for him

And who unhooked and gutted and cooked and then fed the fish to him...since we know Kommander AWOL could not do these things for himself without screwing up

[madokie]

13. probably fed it a couple firecrackers that way he cleaned the fish

and cooked it at the same time. And got a nut while performing that noble duty. And then shared it with his empress the condi.

[demgurl]

34. No one baited it for him.......

* did it all by himself because he is truly great at baiting....in fact, you could say he is a master at it.....yes, he is a master baiter!!!!!!!!!!! :rofl:

[AwakeAtLast]

62. An inspired reply, but you still get this response

:spank: :spank: :spank:

:rofl:

:hi:

[demgurl]

86. WakeMeUp.....

Thanks a lot, now you have me all worked up with that paddling!

All joking aside, glad you appreciate the joke.

[tabasco]

76. Me too!

Oops did I say that out loud??

[Ravy]

154. 7.5 pound fish? Pfft. Cheney bagged a 210 lb lawyer! (n/t)

[Ravy]

153. You don't need bait for big perch...

You just need Navy scuba divers to put the hook directly in the fish's mouth.

[bamademo]

4. The high point of his presidency for me will be when he resigns.

N/T

[madokie]

16. I'm still holding out for the leg irons and the free trip to the Hague

this whole cabal that is known as the bush* mal-misadministration will be hunted down like the nazi's after ww2

[TexasLawyer]

Oh, that would be LOVELY,

wouldn't it? The whole lot of them!

[Hubert Flottz]

130. Now that picture is a keeper!

N/T

[leftyladyfrommo]

35. Hear, Hear. Well said. I can hardly wait. n/t

[LiberalFighter]

5. And he is not being honest...

but he can't tell the truth otherwise he will really start a riot.

[terrya]

6. So....

You would think he would say something like Iraq or handing his rich friends a big tax cut or try to use that moment to defend some part of his dismal failure of a Presidency.

But the greatest moment as President was catching a fish.

2009 can't come soon enough for me.

[Kutjara]

7. Christ on a Bike.

This man is surreal.

He's like some elaborate practical joke being played on the entire country.

Please, won't someone give this twat a bowl of pretzels.

[latebloomer]

144. LOL!

You are funny!

:rofl:

[lisby]

8. Oh Jesus F'in Christ.

:hangover:

:wow:

I'm goin' back to bed.

Lisby

[Dudley_DUright]

25. That was precisely my reaction Lisby

I just got back up and no it was not just a horrible dream. :boring:

[Autonomy]

57. I've had that same feeling

every morning since November, 2000. :-(

[saltpoint]

9. I hope someone snapped a picture for next year's Christmas card.

He caught a fish. Big whup.

[terrya]

10. Will this fish be mounted and put in the Presidential Library?

Since it's his best moment and all.

[saltpoint]

12. LOL!!

[Dudley_DUright]

27. Right next to the book shelf holding a copy of

"My Pet Goat".

[hlthe2b]

40. And, that underscores the perfect location for the pRes. Library...

a bait shop....:evilgrin:

[Lisa]

125. I say he should have it converted into an electronic puppet ...

... like one of those "Billy Bass" fish (he supposedly has one of those anyway).




Then we can have the fish narrate the Presidential Library tours. (It would certainly beat having an animatronic statue of Bush himself ... like the joke-telling one of LBJ at the Johnson museum in Texas.)

[Mikimouse]

11. Wow! I hope they got the Fish and Wildlife service to...

document it, as that perch is a world record!

[Hubert Flottz]

23. He lied again!

He lies about EVERYTHING because he's a "Fisherman," might be the point of this entire fish story! His excuse for being the Lying King!

[Zodiak]

64. Thank you!!!!

Anyone who has ever fished in Texas will tell you that NO PERCH gets to be 7 lbs.!! ("perch" in Texas are really Bluegill) Either he couldn't identify the fish or this is another fish tale.

He cannot resist lying.

[TX-RAT]

170. We have several varieties of perch in TX,.

But none reach that size.

[dogday]

14. Meeting wounded kids fighting in his war

and seeing their bravery would definitely not count as a best moment for him.. To be able to give them comfort would not even occur to him... Stick that perch right up your ass sir!

[tabasco]

77. He does not have the capacity to understand

the importance of such a meeting. I am convinced he is a sociopath.

[Botany]

15. As a fisherman

In his own private stocked lake ..... which was built up in 1998 and 1999
along with the rest of the photo op ranch .... whose construction was over
seen by Enron ...... to prove his "country roots" ..... he catches a fish Wow!

BTW it might not have been a perch but a largemouth bass.

[MADem]

24. Yep, FAKE LAKE, imported FISH, fake Pretzledunce! n/t

[bullwinkle428]

75. Largemouth bass...caught by a large-mouth ass!!

[KyuzoGator]

17. 9/11 was the best moment in his presidency.

It granted him a three-year moratorium on criticism.

[necso]

18. Ah, the common touch.

He's just yer average Joe Twentyfourpack.

[kiki]

19. Note the use of "MY lake"...

Translation: "Dude, when you're president, they give you like a whole freakin' LAKE! It's AWESOME!"

[susu369]

32. bu$h* reeks of narcissism

every conversation includes I I I I me me me MY MY MY.

That 7.5 perch would disagree:

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."

[opihimoimoi]

161. How Vain can a President be....(Picture of Bush)

[SlavesandBulldozers]

47. yep MY lake.

typical rich asshole. it's not enough that he caught the fish, it was in his fucking lake - like anybody cares.

[smirkymonkey]

20. I'm speechless.

I really can't believe this moron is a world leader.

[Hubert Flottz]

21. "7.5 pound (3.402 kilos) perch "

WHO...ever heard of a 7.5 pound freshwater perch? If it was a White Drum, or "White Perch" it was a bottomfeeder like Bush and not really a perch? Any Ichthyologists out there?

[Botany]

26. Bet you that the perch part was a problem with translation.

From English to German and back to English.

He has a bass pond which I am sure is managed so as to make his fishing time kinda
like Dick Cheney's canned bird hunts ..... shooting fish in a barrel.

I no longer can be stunned by the utter lack of class by this figure head who pretends
that he is running things.

[July]

112. Just posted on this concerning the translation.

The German article uses the word "Barsch," which is translated in my Langenscheidt's German-English dictionary as "perch." However, I did a little further checking online and found that both "bass" and "perch" are rendered as "Barsch," so you may be right.

[sendero]

152. It would have to be..

... there are no 7 pound perch in Texas, that is for sure.

[theophilus]

31. There's no telling what he means. I will say that, technically,

what are called "bass" in Texas are actually perch. The largemouth is a perch and "bass" are salt water species. The striped bass is a saltwater species that is introduced into freshwater lakes. Maybe somebody told him about the "bass" was really a perch and he is using that term to confuse everybody. That's what he does best.

A 7.5 pound bluegill, or whatever, would be really big for a "perch" and might even be a record. Will the media investigate and get the "truth" on this one?

[HuffleClaw]

166. world record for a bluegill is 4 lbs, 3 oz.

so, he can't claim that lie either.

[Bozita]

71. Maybe Congress would like to investigate that lake for steroids

That perch was definitely the Barry Bonds of the deep.

[Hubert Flottz]

115. A Worm Dipper's Wettish Dream, that 5 X sized mega-perch was!

W-O-W!


Moby-Perch must have been the after effect of all those mushroom clouds of pollution and rivers of super toxic soup, that Bush's reconfigured corporate EPA, made possible for his children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children'schildren's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children'schildren's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children'schildren's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's children's kids!

I wonder if the pond was half full, or half empty, after Shrub jerked that whopper senior outta there???? I'll bet they had to fillet that thing with a cutting torch and a set of 3 ton chain falls!

[Recursion]

81. Are you F*ing kidding me?

Not the shot of Saddam's statue falling?

Not the Afghani election?

Not the Iraqi election?

Not the prescription drug bill?

Not being re-elected?

No, it was catching a perch nearly twice as heavy as any perch heretofore known to science.

OK, so the first 5 were fake events that didn't really happen like he presents them. Couldn't he at least be *honest* about the size or type of the fish? Or just say "a 7 pound fish"? There are 7 pound fish out there, just not perches. I would have believed him if he said a 7 pound fish. But it's like the man is incapable of telling the truth. It freaks me out.

[WinkyDink]

109. Typical psychopathic "excess detail".

Not to mention catching something that was incapable of fighting back, whose size he must therefore exaggerate.

The import, to me, is that Bush chose a story of killing.

[Heywood J]

169. That can't fight back?

You mean just like Abu Ghraib or those fraternity pledges, where he chose to lord over people who were restrained and/or maimed? I'm sensing quite the trend of cowardice here.

He's got quite the thing for beating people/animals that can't fight back.

[Hubert Flottz]

111. Not even a strip pokeher session at the Watergate cat house?

Or a Bank statement from his bank in the Cayman Islands?

Or the thrill of Bullshitting millions of people all over the planet with those lies in the State of the Union speeches?

Of a game of nude leapfrog without the firecrackers but with jeffery?

Not even all the Jack Daniel Black Label he can guzzle, behind closed doors, to make the shakes and the heebie jeebies go away?

[opihimoimoi]

156. No Need for fishologists...jus google the damn thing PERCH RECORD WEIGHT

and you will see the record white Perch is about 1.7 Lbs...in one state it was 4 lbs....not even close to Bushies 7 pounder.

Me thinks he was not of cognizent Mind or the scale used was FLAWED...or he mentiroso

[fishnfla]

22. All fisherman are liars

Makes sense to me, he's probably a great fisherman. God knows he's a great liar

[Olney Blue]

28. I thought it was "liberating" Iraq

Who knew? It was nonliberating a fish.

[Frustratedlady]

29. It probably was his best moment...

as so few people take his bait anymore.

Or, you could just consider that statement as another fish "tale". God knows he has plenty of those in his creel.

[undeterred]

30. At the end of 2001 he said "all in all, its been a great year for us"

How could someone who was president during 9/11 think it was a great year- unless he was going to use that terrible event as a license for even more terrible things?

[jarnocan]

146. and his daddy said the worse thing

that 'happened' in his son's first term was 'Michael Moore" OMG criticism is such a bitter bill,
911 was a great success for the Bu**SH** regime - I really beleive that.

[leftyladyfrommo]

33. Is this a joke?

[Dudley_DUright]

36. sadly no, he really said it

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-05-07T100113Z_01_L07638085_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BUSH-FISH.xml&archived=False

[leftyladyfrommo]

41. Oh, God. Can he get any more embarrassing?

I keep thinking we have reached the low point and then he sinks even lower. Is there no bottom?

[sweettater]

37. This needs to get a huge amount

of exposure. I already let my feelings on this hang out on another thread so I will say here that I am absolutey,positively flabbergasted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He can't be this stupid. It is beyond stupid.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

49. "he can't be this stupid"

don't ever say that again, not as long as you live.

there are no limits to his stupidity. none. and we all pay for it.

welcome to DU by the way.

[sweettater]

52. You are right

but how far can stupid go? I mean stupid is stupid, is it not? :think:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

56. how far can it go?

i don't know, but about 2 years ago I thought that he had reached the nadir of stupidity. he was just getting started, it turns out.

[12string]

96. stupidity

Albert Einstein said,"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.",and our president has surely helped prove his point.

[sweettater]

105. Thank you

I will remember this. I have heard that stupidity knows no bounds. * in this case qualifies.

[Dudley_DUright]

113. Thanks for reminding me of this apropos quote

and welcome to DU 12string. :hi:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

164. great quote

thanks. so damn true.

[Hubert Flottz]

119. The Biggest Everything else is grown in Texas...

Why not biggest PERCH and biggest STUPID?

[SlavesandBulldozers]

165. i suppose Texas would be a good home-state for such a dubious

honor.

good point

[Arkansas Granny]

38. Well, that goes along with his remark that one of the best things

about being president was inviting his old friends from Texas to the White House and making them call him Mr. President. I can't remember who interviewed him to get that statement, but it was one of the major networks, IIRC.

[Jane Austin]

83. Wasn't that in the interview with ABC's Elizabeth Vargus?

I think that was three or four months ago.

[robbedvoter]

39. Probably as real as winning an election - his aides dived and glued

some bought fish at the end of il Dunce's hook.
And let's not forget, trouncing Commedy Central at funnin' as per Millbank (I think)

[electron_blue]

42. Well, he's right. Can you think of a better moment? It's all sucked.

[ThomWV]

43. This Is A Lie!

If you go to the International Game Fish Association you can look at the statistics for existing and pending world record fish. The database is usually closed to the public but not right now for whatever reason. You can look it up.

I did.

Of all species of perch that might be found in a Texas lake (outside of California where there are some odd species) for which a record is kept the very heaviest ever caught is a 4 pound 3 ounce (1.91 kg) Yellow Perch caught by a Dr. C. Abbot in May of 1985 in Bordentown, NJ. The number two Perch is a white one met its end on July 4, 1984 when a Mr. Ray Johnson yanked it out of the Yuba Reservoir at Fayette Utah, at a grand total weight of 2 pounds 11 ounces (0.9 kg).

If George is telling us he caught one twice the size of the world record it is a lie.

[robbedvoter]

44. Don't you argue with the decider! Ha!ha! Why do you hate America?

[Hubert Flottz]

46. The picture of it weighed 290.7 pounds!

I'll bet it was a bugle mouthed bass(Carp)caught on a live action, peanut butter dough ball, or a perch colored hand grenade!

The man is a Bushitter!

First we find out that the Head Dick at the CIA is mixed up with Call Guys and now we find out that the pResident is proud of being a master baiter! What WILL...we tell Jimmy Swaggart and The Focus on the Family guy?

[opihimoimoi]

160. Jimmy and the ugly Ho? Goss with the Call Guys?? OMG...what a world...

[ecstatic]

90. So was he being sarcastic when he answered this question

It's clear that his perch story could not be true. Was he being a sarcastic ass to the reporters--- trying to say that there has not been a great moment since he took office?

[robbedvoter]

45. Someone still have the photoshop of W&Jebbie fishing in NOLA?

It's a must!

[Libby2]

48. He is just a simple guy, you know.

[MazeRat7]

50. A Perch ? So he basically caught "bait".... hummmmmm

For those of you not from the south... many fisher-persons (*wink) down here use perch as trot-line bait for the much larger and tastier catfish (generally the yellows or blues).

Maybe this is why he never caught Osama... all he knows how to catch is the #3 guy (or bait).

MZr7

[Berserker]

51. Texas record fish

I know different states have different names for fish. But...the record in Texas for Nile Perch is 12lbs 1oz. This is not a native species but is originally from Africa.
http://www.landbigfish.com/staterecords/records.cfm?state=Texas

"Darwin's Nightmare" focuses on Tanzania. The director of the film, Hubert Sauper, paints a grim picture of a country that processes and exports tons of nile perch flesh to wealthy countries while native Tanzanians teeter on the edge of famine. The planes that take away the perch for sale and consumption arrive with guns and ammunition that will make their way to the wars in surrounding African countries.
http://invasivespecies.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_invasivespecies_archive.html

This species has been nominated as among 100 of the "World's Worst" invaders.
http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?si=89&fr=1&sts=

My question is why does he have this species of fish in "HIS" lake and how did he get them?

[Faryn Balyncd]

53. sounds like Bush needs an - Early Retirement -

[Canuckistanian]

54. This guy just writes himself

It just goes to show you that any idiot can become President of the United States.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

55. the greatest fish story ever told

remember that video of bush and that cable fisherman who told bush he didn't do it right and bush

didn't like it and made the guy say he did do it right. i don't remember exactly what the guy said

but junior got upset.

[Skinner]

58. LOL.

What a fool.

[lonestarnot]

60. That too!

[lonestarnot]

59. OMG! What a pig!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

61. I wonder how many sticks of TNT it took. n/t

[Lisa]

127. * wouldn't know how to handle TNT -- he'd have the Air Force ...

... drop a daisycutter into the lake.

[AwakeAtLast]

63. Wait a minute! Look at the end of the linked article

"The paper said the White House planned to release an authorised English version of the interview on Monday."

His comment has not yet been translated into English (or so it says). What would be the official statement after translating from German to English to "Dubya"?

Can't wait for the "official" version. :eyes:

[Dudley_DUright]

65. Yes, I pointed this out on another thread

Watch for some major transcript doctoring on Monday with the mainstream media falling for it (again).

[Infomaniac]

66. Many would rather he caught Osama Bin Laden than a damn fish.

Taking a page out of the RNC bullshit the masses playbook, some say that it would be better if Bush caught Osama rather than a fish. Bass, perch, or mermaid, this jackass gets asked about the greatest moment of his presidency and he tells us a story about a fish? Is fishing part of the job description for president? What's next? Is Crashcart going to announce that the greatest moment of his tenure was shooting a guy in the face? This is beyond stupid. This guy is out-to-lunch. It's like he's had a lobotomy or something. Who in their right mind talks about hooking a fish as the greatest point of their political career? 2008 cannot come fast enough.

[Hubert Flottz]

121. You bring up a very good, but very scary point!

Suppose that was only the number 3, or number 2 fish, in that enchanted pond of "His'n"? There might be a freakin' HUGH perch out there, that is just lurking and waiting! America could be in imminent danger and we need to preemptively drain that lake of his, before that fish takes out everybody that's large enough to die, in Umerikka. The Texas Chainsaw might not even stop that thang!

[peace13]

67. I guess he forgot

about the first day Condi wore her new black boots! That had to be a good one too!

[MGKrebs]

68. That is just so disrespectful of the office,

this country, it's citizens, and other world leaders.

He can't think of ONE THING that is a greater moment in his presidency than catching a fish while on vacation? If there was ever any doubt that this administration is more about Cheney or Rove or Dobson or Wolfowicz, and he is just a ... what's it called when the King is just a boy and somebody else runs things for him until he gets old enough?

[Infomaniac]

85. I think it's called a regency. Agreed. This is disrespectful of the office

Chimpy shows nothing but contempt and disrepect for the Oval Office.

[MGKrebs]

92. I think "dauphin" is the word I was thinking of, but

it's not really accurate in this case of course.

[dansolo]

69. So it wasn't the capture of Saddam?

This is a true insight to how much he hates this job. He loves the parts where he can have people fawning all over him, but he really can't stand all of that "hard work."

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

70. For Real??? What An Absolute Jackass He Is.

Imagine any of us being asked by someone "what's the high point of your career?", and answering "oh, once I caught a big fish in my backyard". I couldn't even imagine how far back in the head the person's eyes would roll LOL

What a moron.

[tanyev]

72. Hey, I agree with him!

If I had to pick a best moment out of his presidency, that might have to be it.

[Jazz2006]

73. Unbe-effing-lievable.

Is there no end to this man's buffoonery?

It would be laughable if it were not so incredibly sad.

:(

[savemefromdumbya]

74. As least it wasn't for his role in government

says it all doesn't it

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

78. He must mean the fish he and poppy caught in "Lake" New Orleans...(pix)

[Dudley_DUright]

82. A great photoshop job

:thumbsup:

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

88. Alas, I can't take credit for it but it is a classic!

[Warren DeMontague]

79. Just imagine how many trillions of dollars, not to mention lives we'd have

saved if we'd just sent that chuckle-monkey fishing for the past five years.

[madrchsod]

80. see ----he`s just an average guy!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

87. This is true, it certainly isn't anything official he's done. That's for

sure.

[NightOwwl]

89. Like everything else in his presidency....

it involves killing a defenseless being.

[classof56]

91. Just gotta say this before I go to work:

This man is freakin' insane. He's so out of touch with reality it just goes beyond belief. I'd say words fail me (by now they well could have) but I did manage to come up with freakin' insane. Not bad for an old retiree who's had to get a part-time job THANKS TO BUSHIE'S FISCAL POLICIES, WHICH HAVE NEARLY DESTROYED MY INVESTMENTS AND PLAYED HAVOC WITH MY RETIREMENT INCOME.

A trial at The Hague is too good for him, but it would be a start.

Tired Old Cynic

[LibDemAlways]

93. The cretin described 2001 as a "fabulous year"

just a couple of months after 9/11, so I'm surprised he didn't describe the highlight of his occupation of the WH as watching the twin towers fall, or ordering shock and awe, or, more recently, watching the Katrina victims floating by.

Someone else cooked up that "fishy" non-political response.

[BlueJac]

94. I am shocked!!

I was sure his best moments were when he was lying to the American people...........he has done that so much it must be satisfying.

[Treclo]

95. Oh. My. God.

Unfucking believable. Can he really be that much of a jerk?

[Gabi Hayes]

97. Porter Goss on his best moment as CIA Director:

catching crabs at the Watergate!

[populistdriven]

139. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh shit no you didn';t!@#$#! :rofl:

[wake.up.america]

98. How can anyone, even those who are members of his sect, accept...

that statement as being an intelligent assessment from Bush of the last 6.5 years?

[nytemare]

99. Right after 9-11, he said one of the saddest things was that he couldn't

run more often.

[Rocknrule]

100. His best moments were 9/11 and Shock & Awe

so much delicious destruction

[BrklynLiberal]

101. It may have caused the least harm of anything he did during his admin. So

maybe it WAS his best moment.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

102. I don't often get really PISSED at him.

But I am right now.

So...it's true that he isn't really INTO being president. Yet he lets his minions destroy the character of two war heroes (McCain & Kerry) so he can have a do-nothing job.

I think I officially hate him now.

[ladywnch]

103. Everything else has been a royal inconvenience!!!!!

[renate]

129. welcome to DU!

:hi:

[DFW]

104. This must be a Nile Perch

The Nile perch can reach 200 Kg (440 pounds!!) and over six feet in length. It has been introduced into Texas.

From the "Invasive Species Weblog:"

Geographical range
Native range: Native to the Nile system, Lake Mariout, and most major West African river systems, from the Senegal to the Cross; also present in the Zaire system and lakes Albert, Turkana and several lakes in the Ethiopian highlands. Introduced in Lakes Kyoga, Nabugabo and Victoria in East Africa. Occuring in all depth zones; less abundant in littoral rocky habitats and oxygen-poor conditions. Also reported to be introduced from Sudan to Congo and from Ethiopia to Cuba and possibly established in the wild; also from Mali to Morocco and from Africa to Texas (USA), both apparently without establishing populations in the wild.


Texas (USA): as in "his" lake.

So, if Bush-lite is going on about catching a 7.5 pound version of an imported fish than can grow to be 400 pounds, I'd say he has just about the same
outlook on the achievments of his fishing as we do on the achievements of his undeserved term in office. No wonder he thinks he's never made a mistake.
That's like successfully starting your car and thinking you've won the Indianapolis 500.

[Botany]

110. Spew alert!

"That's like successfully starting your car and thinking you've won the Indianapolis 500."

Catching fish from a stocked pond ..... the man is Babe Winkleman & Paul Bunyan rolled
into one.

[neuvocat]

106. I'm going out on a limb here...

but it sounds like the only thing he's enjoyed without something regrettable since 2000 is catching that fish. Everything else has been a sham or a colossal blunder from its inception and maybe, just maybe, he's wishing that he never got into politics now.

He's the biggest failure this country has EVER experienced and I have a feeling he might end up in jail.

He probably won't but its bad enough for him to consider seriously.

[slay]

107. What a horrible little troll of a man

Best moments COULD have been - universal healthcare, raising the minimum wage, windfall profits taxes on big oil, ending the war in Iraq, making sure our own government wasn't spying on us, etc, but he did NONE of these. WORST PRESIDENT EVER!!! :( :( :(

[lavendermist]

108. Shallow is the only word I can

think of. But what is so pitiful is that is as deep as it gets!

[michael_1166]

114. "Bild am Sonntag" is the worst tabloid we have here in Germany...

so I guess it wasn't really a 7.5 pound perch Little Lord Pissypants caught in his lake, but a 7.5 gram guppy.

[stevietheman]

116. It wasn't when he was mass murdering Iraqi children...

during his elective, unjustified, illegal war in Iraq?

I thought it was reported he was jumping up and down with joy as the war was getting underway.

[Kazak]

117. The Aggies deserve this guy...

:puke:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

118. I thought it was when a rainbow appeared and communicated with him

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/07/20040721-10.html

Here are portions of two of Bush's speeches from the White House website. Bush talks about the "rainbow speech" he gave in Romania when a rainbow suddenly appeared over his head and he said it was a "message" to him. He called it a "vision" and twice he called it a "powerful message" being sent to him by nature, which he then interpreted as God's smile and he then told the people of Romania what God was doing through that rainbow. He also said it was "one of the most moving experiences" of his entire Presidency:


"PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, I think one thing -- I'll never forget my trip to Bucharest -- it was the rainbow speech. (Laughter.) It was a mystical experience for me. It was one of the most amazing moments of my presidency, to be speaking in the square, the very square where Ceausescu gave his last speech. And the rainbow that I saw in the midst of the rainstorm ended right behind the balcony from my point of view. It's a clear signal that, as far as I was concerned, that freedom is powerful and -- ..."


"You know, I'll never forget my trip to Bucharest at the rainbow speech. It was one of the most moving experiences of my Presidency. And the reason why was that the rainbow, itself, that appeared in the midst of a rainstorm in front of 200-plus-thousand people ended right behind -- from my vision, ended right behind the place where the tyrant, Ceausescu, gave his last speech. It was -- it was a very powerful message. It moved me deeply during the moment.

And it still moves me to think that there was a powerful message being delivered by nature, to the point where I remember turning back to the people of Romania and said, "God is smiling on Bucharest." And I meant that. ..."

[michael_1166]

122. At first I thought you were joking ...

but then I saw the link to whitehouse.gov ... Wow, u-n-b-e-l-i-e-v-a-b-l-e what a crackpot Shrub is! That rainbow remark alone should be sufficient enough to call in the doctors and declare him unfit for office.

I mean, can there be any doubt at all he's able to blow the planet up? It just needs a bad day on which his brain chemistry makes him see or hear things that aren't there!

Help! This is madness!

[happydreams]

120. I can understand why he would think this.

It's the only thing he ever accomplished on his own. Or at least until we find out that some operatives with scuba gear put the fish on the line.

[democrank]

126. ZOWIE! He`s a uniter, a decider....even a fisherman!

The rest of you folks can spend time worrying about the Iraq War or gasoline prices or warrantless wiretaps. I`m going to make a shrine in my living room....green velvet, soft lighting, and a wooden ruler highlighted at the 7.5 inch mark. This is beyond glorious. Our president caught a fish. In his own lake. The best moment of his presidency. God Bless America.

[AAARRRGGGHHH]

128. All kidding aside ...

this is literally shocking.

[guinivere]

131. I would have to agree with him.

When Smirky the Dunce was fishing at least he wasn't out and about plundering the country and spreading his own special brand of shitheaded, wrongass stupidity that passes as "presidential" these days.

:dunce: imagine asshat smiley here --->

[Chomp]

132. The truest thing he's ever said. nt

[B Calm]

133. 7.5 perch???? What kind of perch grows that big? Sure as hell

isn't yellow perch!

[B Calm]

135. Dumb as this monkey presidebt is, it was probably a carp.

[DFW]

136. B Calm

Greetings from Dallas via Germany.

There is a fish sold in fish stores called "Viktoriabarsch," which is probably the same thing.
It's a popular filet here in Germany. The only thing is, when the Hutus and Tutsis were slaughtering
each other ten years ago, they dumped half the bodies into Lake Victoria. Nice fish food, especially
for a 400 pound predator fish.

Needless to say, my wife and I have not eaten any filet of Viktoriabarsch since.
The very thought of what they might have been feeding on was enough!!

As for Bush, if the best moment of his presidency was when he caught the fish, I'll agree that it
was the best moment for America and the world, as he wasn't out doing anything destructive, but
it's not a stretch to imagine that he didn't see it that way. To Bush that really WAS the highlight
of his presidency. Not one thing he did in the line of his presidential duties can match up to that
moment for him. Well, maybe except for that photo op in Iraq in 2003 when he posed with that plastic
Thanksgiving turkey. Very appropriate, tho--a plastic turkey being carried around by the real thing.

[dave123williams]

134. It really IS his best moment. What a douchebag.

[catmandu57]

137. Nothing that comes from this idiots mouth shocks me any longer

I'm numb with moran* fatigue, I just want this stupid ugly micreant gone, I'm almost past the point of caring where. Prison would be appropriate, but, at this point just take your fishing pole and can of worms and go away, there is too much real work to be done in the world now.

[populistdriven]

138. I'm tempted to mail bush a trout in a box with a note "get back to work"

of course without any ice in it

:D

[degreesofgray]

140. Where does he rate reading

My Pet Goat to schoolchildren?

[KAT119]

141. 'BUTCH' loves killing the weakest & most vulnerable-frogs/fish/children

[Vanje]

142. Dec 2001 : "All in all, its been a great year for Laura and me.".

While the ashes of the twin towers were still smouldering, George W. and Laura Bush said in a Christmas interview with (I think it was) Barbara Walters, "All in all, its been a great year for Laura and me.".

[DeadManInc]

143. A 7.5 lb perch would be a world fucking record,

unless he has nile perch in his pond! Look for yourself!

http://www.igfa.org/WorldRecordSearch.asp

[opihimoimoi]

158. Like Flottx sez: he is a Master Baiter

[RebelOne]

167. As reported on the news this morning, it was not a perch.

It was a largemouth bass.

[wrate]

145. Every time * opens his mouth, he sets a new standard for stupidity. n/t

[Botany]

147. I still can't believe he said that.

Wild Bear catch wild salmon in real wilderness

or

Fake President catches bass from his stocked bass pond (and guaranteed that pond is
managed for big bass production ....... In Ohio 50 % largemouth, 20% shiners, 20% bluegill, & 10%
channel catfish = big bass) on a fake photo op ranch that was built from 1998 to 2000 and was ready
when he got selected as president as our fake media feeds us b.s. about his country roots.


:rant:

[Brazenly Liberal]

148. Finally something Bush and I agree on.

Catching that perch was almost surely the moment when he was doing the least harm to the country. Not what most people would call great, but in this case it will have to do.

[etherealtruth]

149. He is truly an imbecile

A complete embarrassment to my country

[Hubert Flottz]

151. Hey...

You should have seen the pike that got away!!!!



I can't think of a single time Bush has told the truth! Do you think we'll ever catch him telling the truth?

[opihimoimoi]

157. Truth is as Truth does...the man has no clue as to what is the Truth

He is so out of control he is going bonkers...

The picture shows a Bass?? or BlueGill? or Tilapia???

Looks like a 5 pounder.....lol

[Hubert Flottz]

168. He must have had an LSD flashback when he was weighing the

carp and just gotten a wrong reading. I guess it could happen to any liar...errr...bullshitter...err...I mean...errrr...fisherman. Misleaders are often misreaders too! There is something fishy about everything he sez or does! The whole GOP is fishy!

I think it was one of those Enchanted fish like the kind that grants three or four wishes, if you agree to turn it loose. Or perhaps it was like the 67% of the obese American children they quit selling soda pop to at school. A big fat fish sounds about right, to tell a big obese lie about.

[survivor999]

155. Best moment of his presidency

is when he killed an animal for fun... Revealing...

[hopeisaplace]

159. did he say this on a park bench with a box of chocolates?

Just.Wow.:wow:

[zulchzulu]

162. That's probably a lie too

Bringing up a fish story as a "best moment" is certainly a suspect choice of words.

[zulchzulu]

163. Oh yeah, Chimpy knows what "3.402 kilos" is...

Hmmm...maybe back in the day when he was buying kilos of Bolivian Marching Powder for the Ol' Noserino...maybe...